Keyboard Fetish

By J. McGeary

I got Rage Across New York the other day, and since I'd been listening to 'Invisible Touch' by Genesis just a little too long, an idea I'd had for a Glass Walker fetish kind of crystallized. Tell me if this is too outrageous or what, okay? Thanks.

I couldn't think of a name for it, I'm afraid...

Level: 5

Gnosis: 8

The fetish is a good-sized TiKorg keyboard, along the lines of the ones seen in Billy Joel's concert at Yankee Stadium. It has the capability to imitate 99 different instruments/voices, but only four of those voices are associated in any way with spirits of any kind. Only a Galliard can activate these, and though it's a Glass Walker fetish, any tribe's Galliard can pull it off. However, the rolls to use the powers are dependent on a few things:

Flute: This is roughly the same as a nice simple Harmony Flute. Performance roll against a difficulty of five.

Trumpet: This, like the remaining two non-flute powers, requires a Performance + Charisma roll, difficulty of 8 (can be lowered by using a REEEEALLY cool/appropriate tune). Grants a form of the Ahroun Gift of Inspiration. Not only does it act as the Inspiration gift to the Garou's companions, it moderately influences any non-Wyrm spirits in the area to be charitable towards the Garou and her/his aims. In certain cases, it will sway nearby spirits to fight for the player or to accept some commands (ST discretion). Botch results in some truly pissed-off spirits, and the Garou's companions all act as if they were Wyrm spirits affected by a spirit whistle (though only those of 6 gnosis or less flee the scene).

Steel Drums: Anybody who hears this on the street, in my experience, will drift in to listen, so... Use of the Steel Drums power acts as a Rite of Summoning. Difficulty is up to the Storyteller. This one requires a Performance + Rituals roll. The spirit summoned depends upon the song used (I figure the Garou I have who owns this fetish found out what it could do when she was dinking around, trying to sound silly, and played "Galileo" by the Indigo Girls on Steel Drums... and he actually showed up. Told her what the other voices did, too.) A botch on this power results in either the wrong type of spirit showing up, or utterly useless spirits that just hang around and kibitz and get really annoying.

Unlabelled: The last spiritually active voice on this keyboard can only be used with ONE tune- "The Brazilian", by Genesis. Difficulty for this voice is a 9. It summons a horde of Weaver and Wyld spirits, which charge the area with spiritual power and do any number of other wonderfully gorgeous things (Storyteller's discretion). A botch on this results in summoning a BUNCH of extremely powerful/nasty Wyrm spirits, and the possible destruction of the keyboard, plus three levels aggravated damage automatically done to the one playing the keyboard.